Balfour Beatty has completed the sale of its 24.5% interest in Devonport Management Ltd (DML) to Babcock International plc (Babcock) for a cash consideration of £86 million.

Engineers from Yorkshire Water have been working non-stop in order to prevent the Ulley Reservoir in Rotherham from bursting its banks, as a result of floods that are currently causing havoc across the country, with South Yorkshire most affected.

At its Annual General Meeting, Tolent plc announced that trading in the first half of the year has been slower than for the same period last year, as a result of a number of large contracts being delayed.